From a speech given at the Yale Entrepreneurial Innovation Summit. May 1st 2010. Test your passions first Develop good work skills early Constantly refine what your passions are No matter what, new ideas matter You can’t be afraid to fail Work hard Notes: 1. Test your Passions First do something that excites you take note [...]
The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak
elch | Feb 1, 2010 Guido Vitti I’ll Get It Paul English and his engineers rush to answer the customer service phone. In part because the ringer is so irritating. At a time when many Web companies go out of their way to make it difficult to contact them, Paul English is a customer service fanatic. [...]
The Business and Innovation Trist | Blog | design mind
Business and innovation are in a symbiotic relationship. Innovative products and systems can be revolutionary but if they don’t take hold in the marketplace they will likely fail. So, how do innovators stay creative while also playing the role of business partner to reassure clients that innovative ideas won’t trump the bottom line? Yobie Benjamin [...]
China Vies to Be Leader in Electric Vehicles – NYTimes.com
TIANJIN, China — Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, and making it the world leader in electric cars and buses after that.Enlarge This Image Doug Kanter for The New York TimesChinese leaders have adopted a plan [...]
Goodbye I, Hello We: The Decade of Interdependence | Networked Culture | Fast Company
I have a guilty pleasure. I am addicted to the year-end lists: the round-ups, the best ofs, the tops, the bottoms. The decade turn has been especially delicious, though the debate over what to call the first part of the twenty-first century is endlessly grating–who thinks the riff on the aughts as “the naughties” is [...]
Create Three Distinct Career Paths for Innovators – Harvard Business Review
Big companies are much better at incremental innovation than they are at radical innovation. That’s as true now as it was 20 years ago, despite countless programs aimed at strengthening innovation capabilities. To understand why, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studied 21 large companies’ efforts to build a capability for breakthrough innovations over several years. [...]
Architect – Shigeru Ban – Reusing Materials in Construction
via L STUDIO – Shigeru Ban.
Gary Hamel: Management’s Dirty Little Secret — How to Increase Employee Engagement – Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 – WSJ
How would you feel about a physician who killed more patients than he helped? What about a police detective who committed more murders than he solved? Or a teacher whose students were more likely to get dumber than smarter as the school year progressed? And what if you discovered that these perverse outcomes were more [...]
A Farm on Every Floor – NYTimes.com
IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most farming into cities, and [...]
Heston Blumenthal’s infamous bacon & egg ice cream
Inspired by the bacon ice cream presented on last night’s Top Chef, we’re bumping this older post back to the top. Deliciously demented maestro of molecular gastronomy Heston Blumenthal (chef & owner of the massively Michelin-starred UK restaurant The Fat Duck) shares his signature Bacon & Egg Ice Cream technique and recipe. via Heston Blumenthal’s [...]